News & Announcements

BridgeSight and PGSuper Resource Center—demonstrate how Backdrop can power both a commercial product site and a technical knowledge hub.

The Backdrop CMS core committers and Project Management Committee recently met to discuss priorities for core development. As a community, it’s helpful to pause and take a focused look at where to direct our core development energy over the next 6-12 months.. Here is a draft list of possible priorities that we hope to discuss in detail over the next 5 weeks, at which point we hope to narrow our focus on 2-3 of these items.

Backdrop Live is an online global unconference about Backdrop CMS (and related subjects) over 2 days with sessions suitable for all time zones and all skill levels. From several beginner tutorials covering the basics of Backdrop CMS to advanced topics and future plans, there should be something for you. If there isn't yet, perhaps suggest a topic or even offer to facilitate a discussion.

It will run from 2026年04月23日 15:00 UTC to 2026年04月25日 00:00 UTC

At a Backdrop User Group meeting on Dec 18, Laryn Kragt Bakker of Aten Design Group shared an early look at an important new project in development: Layout Paragraphs for Backdrop CMS.

The project began as part of a conversation around what layouts could look like for content editors in Backdrop – partially inspired by a Drupal 7 installation profile called Web Express, developed originally at the University of Colorado Boulder and deployed currently in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver, which has provided backing for this project.

Demo on Youtube

Backdrop CMS 1.32.0 Released — New Features, UX Enhancements, and Performance Boosts

The Backdrop CMS community is excited to announce Backdrop CMS 1.32.0, the latest stable release in our regular 4-month update cycle. Version 1.32.0 delivers major improvements for site builders and developers alike — including responsive layout options, expanded configuration control, CKEditor 5 updates, and key performance and stability fixes.

Clean, Focused, and User-Friendly

BackdropCMS.org has launched a new home page design, showcasing a modern new look that better highlights the project’s strengths and growing community. The new home page is part of Backdrop's ongoing mission to serve the needs of site owners, designers, and developers — especially in higher education and nonprofit sectors.

The Backdrop CMS community is pleased to announce the release of version 1.31.0 of Backdrop CMS. This update continues our regular 4-month release cycle and delivers new features, improved editor functionality, and updated underlying platform support.
View the release on GitHub »

At the recent Stanford WebCamp, Laryn Bakker, developer with Aten Design Group, talked about "Layout Paragraphs: Answering the Same Questions, Differently." This session presented innovative approaches for managing complex content layouts within Backdrop CMS, drawing inspiration from Drupal's Layout Paragraphs module.

This post is was created on Dec 1, 2024 but it took a while to publish it.

BADCamp 2024: Celebrating Community, Simplicity, and Innovation

A fictional story of the origin of Drop the dragon.

In the spirit of celebrating 10 years of Backdrop since the first release in 2015 one idea suggested was to invite people to write about the origin of Drop the Dragon with full mythological license. Here is my submission.

How did Drop the Dragon become the mascot of Backdrop CMS?